Sharon Knight and her longtime collaborator Winter make up the core of Pandemonaeon. They are most frequently joined by Tina "Bean" Blaine (Haunted by Waters, D'Cuckoo) on percussion, Gari Hegedus (Stellamara) on oud, violin, and mandocello, and most recently, Tim Rayborn (Solace, Ya Elah!) on oud, drums, saz, vocals, and percussion.
Influences
Middle - Eastern, Scandinavian, and Celtic music. Folk and Medieval music. Crunchy guitars. Heavy drums. Dream, and deep archetype. Dead can Dance, Hedningarna, Opeth, Metallica, Nightwish, Varttina, Loreena McKennitt, Led Zeppelin.
Sounds Like
SHARON KNIGHT AND PANDEMONAEON: Temple of Dreams Live
Music for belly dancers in combat boots! Middle-Eastern tribal rock fueled by the Celtic soul of vocalist Sharon Knight.
BIO
Pandemonaeon performed frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early part of this century. They quickly gained a following among Gothic Pagans, and were well known for their lavish live shows. Like mini-circuses, each show featured several acts that supported that evening's storyline - themes such as "the Court of the Winter King" and "Temple of Dreams" featured some of the Bay Areas most original talent. Leather clad fetish vixens strutted alongside exotic tribal bellydancers, fire spinners set the stage for eccentric performance artists, vaudevillian musical acts led into kissing contests, and raving Pagans filled the room as Pandemonaeon fueled the night with their raw tribal music. Pandemonaeon's vision was always to feature the myriad talented artists that make up our vibrant Bay Area community. Now, after a long hiatus, during which time Sharon and Winter both worked on solo projects, Pandemonaeon re-emerges with new music developing for an album to be called Dangerous Beauty.
Thank you for the gift of your friendship, its a joy to connect with you, may our music fill you with good feelings, peace, happiness and help to bring abundance of all your hearts desires. Sending love and infinite blessings of joy. Love Bart & Jody KOSMIC EVOLUTION Here is our video clip Mystery.
Thanks for adding me. I really like Fierce Black Soul of Night -- it would make great background music in a movie. I hope you'll visit my page to check out "Squirrel" and some of my other material. I'm hoping to release my first CD soon. Keep up the good work and take care always.
No, we haven't yet met although we made a lot of eye contact at Pagan Pride '02 while I was photographing you two on stage. Perhaps we will, though, as I understand we both frequent Thee Parkside in SF for metal shows!
Put together the first music video for one of the songs, that being for the song "Eel Marsh House", which is based on the movie "The Woman In Black". Wasn't sure to name it that instead of 'Eel Marsh..." ...Eel Marsh House being where the woman in black 'lived', and now haunts it. Though, she seems to haunt the general area of the village as well as the House. If anyone catches her gaze, looks into her eyes....a child will die, usually from the family of the person unfortunate to look at her. As you see what happens to the story's main character at the end.
Hope you like it, that's about all for now, Cheers! Rob
Wrath Of The Raven's Dance - "Eel Marsh House" - Video
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